Tag Archives: commitment

Dysfunctions of (Agile) Teams

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Over the holiday break I read Patrick Lencioni‘s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“. The premise is that each dysfunction builds upon the dysfunction before it. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Below is an illustration of [...]

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Three Reasons Your Ideas Are Failing

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

If your ideas or products keep failing, perhaps it’s time to stop blaming others and look in the mirror. I suspect that issue lies in one of the following, if not more than one of them. I know it always [...]